Michigan State is probably getting some benefit of the doubt for playing without Suton/Morgan for decent parts of the season. After Suton came back and before Morgan got sick, this team was playing some very good ball.

Arizona is officially the scariest 12 seed in tournament history. The week off will allow Jordan Hill's (#3 pick in the draft) ankle to heal. And they have an easy road. Utah is toast, and Wake and the east coasters won't know what hit them.

I'm a Wisco fan, and relived they made it. But 12 is pretty low for the 4th-place team in the second-best conference in the nation. They were 5-0 against OSU, Mich and PSU (fellow bubble teams), though choked away 2 games to Minn.

However, a lot of good teams got left out, so I'm not complaining. It wasn't a great year for the Badgers, though maybe it still can be.

Hey Pitt..What with the long faces when you were announced? Could it be that had sour grapes since you got your butts whipped by WVU. What the heck you still got #1 seed but we all know you know who kicked your azz last..haha

"Arizona is officially the scariest 12 seed in tournament history. The week off will allow Jordan Hill's (#3 pick in the draft) ankle to heal. And they have an easy road. Utah is toast, and Wake and the east coasters won't know what hit them."

The Missouri team a few years back that made the elite 8 after a mediocre season is a interesting comparison point.

MattLion- with a healthy Hill, Arizona can beat anybody. This mediocre team crushed Kansas by 17.

Their inclusion is further proof that the selection committee doesn't place a lot of stock in RPI where Arizona was #63. But if you look at the Pomeroy ratings, AZ is #39, whereas St. Mary's is #61 and Creighton #67. And if you look at the Sagarin ratings, AZ is #43, St. Mary's is #50 and Creighton is #55.

In short, they included the proper bubble team. Better luck next year, St. Creighton.

MattLion- "I am not sure 9-9 in the not-that-impressive Pac 10 merits a bid, but they certainly have the talent to make a run. They should beat Utah."

The Pac-10 was brutal this year. In terms of average RPI, they were only the 5th conference. But in terms of the average Pomeroy rating, they were the #2 conference, ahead of the much vaunted Big East and almost tied with the ACC.

http://kenpom.com/conf.php?c=P10

Arizona also lost a lot of close games thanks to dubious Pac-10 refs. The ones at Washington, at ASU, and at USC were basically decided by the refs on lousy last second calls in favor of the home team. The one against ASU in Tucson was also stolen, blatantly, by a horrible blocking call against Hill for setting a screen. Pac-10 refs were awful to Arizona this year.

If Arizona went 9-9 in a league where they got to play 6 conference games against teams with RPI's over 100.

PSU went 10-8 in a league where they got to play 4 conference games against teams with RPI's over 100.

In the "BCS" bubble comparison, PSU got robbed. Probably not as much as SDSU or St. Mary's did, though. Yes, I know Arizona beat SDSU, but that was a home game. They don't play home games in the tournament.

"I'm a Wisco fan, and relived they made it. But 12 is pretty low for the 4th-place team in the second-best conference in the nation. They were 5-0 against OSU, Mich and PSU (fellow bubble teams), though choked away 2 games to Minn."

OSU just beat Wisky on Friday.

8 was definitely too low for Ohio State. How in the hell Boston College got a 7 seed ahead of us I have no idea. Not much respect given to the Big 10 in general.

But I'd honestly rather play Siena in round 1 than USC, although I think both are tough, tough match ups. It's also in Dayton, so aside from a potential 2nd round game against the #1 overall seed I'm not too upset with it.

If the seeds hold up, 6 of the 7 Big 10 teams should be done by the end of the 1st weekend.

When the NCAA sent both North Carolina and Duke to Charlotte in 2005, South #1 seed Duke had a harder time with #16 Delaware State than expected and two days later Duke really struggled against #9 seed Mississippi State before winnng. Duke certainly had fan support those days, but North Carolina had vastly more fans in the building and those fans cheered for Duke's opponents as if they were the Tar Heels themselves. The Blue Devils were definitely rattled by that scenario. So while I won't call Duke going to Greensboro any sort of punishment, it's not quite the reward one might think either due to the presence of North Carolina and it fans.

It's pretty crooked of the committee to help out 8 seeds, much less gift Duke and/or NC two home games EVERY YEAR.

LEts look at the facts... The Committee tries earnestly to give the top seeds(1-3 or 4) games, at least first round, that are close to home, or at least not super-far... Last year one of the regional sites was raleigh, so Duke(2 seed) and UNC(1) got to play there, keep in mind that Kansas played in Omaha, as did K-state, and 11 seed, and davidson played in raleigh, and that stanford and UCLA got to play in anaheim...

Im sure that your biggest problem is jealousy over duke and carolina's dominanace... Duke has been a preferred-region seed(1,2 or 3) 23 times in 30 years since the tourney started seeding.. And they have combine for 31 final fours, or one per 2 years, which no other team can match.

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